The Mighty McGurk (1946)
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It's The Champ all over again, with Wallace Beery as a down-and-out prizefighter and Dean Stockwell as the small boy whom he adopts. Mighty McGurk also borrows from Beery's earlier The Bowery (33) by placing its story in that New York neighborhood in 1900. The final echo from Wally Beery's movie past is Aline McMahon, who costarred with Beery in Ah, Wilderness (35). The plot of Mighty McGurk involves Beery's rescuing of the orphaned Stockwell, an English lad, from the clutches of his evil guardian Edward Arnold. The boy in turn inspires Beery to return to the boxing ring after several years of boozy grub work as a Bowery waiter. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Morris Ankrum, Edward Arnold, (more)
- Director(s):
- John Waters
Synopsis of The Mighty McGurk
It's The Champ all over again, with Wallace Beery as a down-and-out prizefighter and Dean Stockwell as the small boy whom he adopts. Mighty McGurk also borrows from Beery's earlier The Bowery (33) by placing its story in that New York neighborhood in 1900. The final echo from Wally Beery's movie past is Aline McMahon, who costarred with Beery in Ah, Wilderness (35). The plot of Mighty McGurk involves Beery's rescuing of the orphaned Stockwell, an English lad, from the clutches of his evil guardian Edward Arnold. The boy in turn inspires Beery to return to the boxing ring after several years of boozy grub work as a Bowery waiter. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Mighty McGurk
- Morris Ankrum - Fowles
- Wallace Beery - Roy "Slag" McGurk
- Aline MacMahon - Mamie Steeple
- Torben Meyer - Second Brewer
- Dorothy Patrick - Caroline Glenson
- Clinton Sundberg - Flexter
- Edward Earle - Martin
- Tom Kennedy - Man at Punching Machine
- Fred Gilman
- Harry Tyler
- Lew Smith - Agent
- James Flavin
- Stuart Holmes - Sightseer
- Edward Arnold - Mike Glenson
- Charles Judels - First Brewer
- Aubrey Mather - Milbane
- Cameron Mitchell - Johnny Burden
- Dean Stockwell - Nipper
- Jimmie Dundee
- Dewey Robinson
- Skeets Noyes - Panhandler
- Joe Yule - Irish Immigrant
- George "Slim" Summerville
- Lee Phelps - Cop
- Frank Mayo
- Frank Marlowe - Mugs
- Director(s):
- John Waters
- Writer(s):
- William Lipman, Grant Garrett, Harry Clark
- Producer(s):
- Nat Perrin
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